RAF Waterbeach held the 44th RAF 46 Squadron Annual reunion 22nd April 1961. The RAF 46 Squadron reunion has been an annual event for over 100 years. This year 2020 no such reunion has been possible.
Basil Appleyard was a pilot flying Javelins with 46 squadron from August 1960 until July 1961. Basil attended this reunion and photographed the attendees in front of a Gloster Gauntlet and a Gloster Javelin. He also photographed the dinner in the evening. These 20 photos he put in an album, scans of the album pages appear below. A selection of these photos also appear on the 46 Squadron website and links to these appear below. Both the website and the albums are annotated with names of the participants.
This post brings together Basil’s photo album of the event, the photos on the 46 squadron website and the archive of Basil’s scanned 120 roll film negatives.
Notable attendees:
- Air Vice Marshall A S G Lee (page 6,7)
- Richard Torrance (page 6,7,8,10)
- Normie Dimmock (page 7,13)
- Shrimp Barclay (page 13,14, 19)
- Wg Cdr F B Sowrey (page 2,6,8,10)
- Wg Cdr Bernard Wills (page 2, 6,7,8,10) OC 46 Squadron 1961
- Pete Gifkins (page 6, 8, 9 16)
The 46 squadron website has a pdf document that include Basil’s photos from RAF 46 Squadron reunion 1961 46 Squadron pdf file The document contains the following 3 scans of pages from the document:
The signed menu contains Basil’s signature above left of centre top row.
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